DOE R&D AccomplishmentsWelcome to the Department of Energy (DOE) Research and Development (R&D) Accomplishments, a central forum for information about the outcomes of past DOE R&D that have had significant economic impact, have improved people's lives, or have been widely recognized as remarkable advances in science. An R&D accomplishment is the outcome of past research whose benefits are being realized now.http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssTue, 10 Mar 2015 07:37:58 -0400Tue, 10 Mar 2015 07:23:10 -0400FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.3.1) http://www.feedforall.com43A03BF1-51C0-4076-AD65-0DF263AEC6C1Johann Deisenhofer, Crystallography, and Proteins<img alt="Johann Deisenhofer" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/images/diesenhofer_caption.jpg"> <a href="http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/deisenhofer.html">Johann Deisenhofer</a>, a Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre". This structure helped explain the process of photosynthesis, the process by which chlorophyll-containing cells in green plants convert incident light to chemical energy and synthesize organic compounds from inorganic compounds. Deisenhofer has collaborated with DOE scientists at LBNL’s Advanced Light Source (ALS), ANL’s Advanced Photon Source (APS), and BNL’s National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS).http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/deisenhofer.html
321CF103-A58A-452F-BA17-142C3102D6F7Tue, 10 Mar 2015 07:23:10 -0400Hermann Muller and Mutations in Drosophila<img alt="Hermann Muller" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/images/muller_caption.jpg">During the 1920’s at the University of Texas in Austin, Hermann J. Muller showed that exposure to radiation changed the genetic makeup of fruit flies (Drosophila). For this discovery, he received the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. From 1945 to 1964 Muller was at Indiana University in Bloomington. During this time he received support from the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) for continued research about radiation altering the incidence of mutations in Drosophila.http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/muller.html
A3CFBE1A-996C-4731-B5B4-86D790DBCFB9Tue, 13 Jan 2015 08:05:28 -0500Carl Anderson Discovers the Positron<img alt="Positron Single Track Antiparticle of Electron from California Institute of Technology" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/images/anderson_positron_caption.jpg">In 1932, Carl David Anderson discovered the positron, a positive charged electron, and confirmed Dirac’s concept of matter and antimatter. This discovery took place in a cloud chamber surrounded by an electromagnet that was designed and built by Anderson. For his discovery, Anderson received the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics.http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/anderson.html
C7D0E202-D561-434F-826B-A4AEC24884D5Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:52:40 -0400Robert Hofstadter and Scintillation Counters<img alt="Robert hofstadter" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/images/hofstadter_small_caption.jpg">While at Stanford, <a href="http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/hofstadter.html">Robert Hofstadter</a> conducted research about elastic and inelastic scattering of high energy electrons by atomic nuclei. He showed that the proton and the neutron were non-point particles and therefore possessed structure. Hofstadter was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for this work.http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/hofstadter.html
AFEE1033-D147-4892-8D33-9B2A6E485309Mon, 4 Aug 2014 08:18:43 -0400Chen Ning Yang, Weak Interactions, and Parity Violation<img src="http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/images/yangcaption.jpg" alt="Chen Ning Yang" border="0" align="right"> While at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) during the summer of 1956, <a href="http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/yang.html">C. N. Yang</a> and <a href="http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/tdlee.html">T. D. Lee</a> conducted particle decay experiments using BNL’s Cosmotron particle accelerator.&nbsp;&nbsp;Through these experiments, they discovered that the fundamental and ‘absolute’ law of parity had been violated. For their discovery, Yang and Lee won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics.http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/yang.html
6D8223BE-5F82-4E9A-A416-6A2E964C0668Mon, 5 May 2014 08:14:00 -0400Charles DeLisi and the DOE Origins of Human Genome Research<img src="http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/images/delisi_caption.jpg" alt="Charles DeLisi" border="0" align="right"> In 1985, Charles DeLisi, then Associate Director of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Health and Environmental Research (OHER), played a key role in the <a href="http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/genomeDOEorigins.html" "target="_blank" > DOE origins</a> of human genome activity by conceiving the idea for a program to sequence the human genome. March 2014 is the anniversary of the Santa Fe Workshop, which brought together participants from government, academia, and the private sector to explore the possibility of sequencing the human genome. This Workshop was sponsored by DOE and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and met DeLisi’s goal of laying out an approach to sequence the human genome. The Human Genome Project (HGP) was formalized in mid-February 1990http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/genomeDOEorigins.html
BC9627AC-B9F5-4E2E-9DC8-2073BAEC65B6Thu, 27 Feb 2014 14:03:59 -0500DOE R&D Accomplishments Fifteenth Anniversary
atoms to the
Big Bang and
supernovae; from
Archaea (the third branch of life) to
RTGs (great to have if you’re a spacecraft), from a
video game to a
PET, from
photosynthesis to
superconductivity, and much much more.]]>
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F52D21EC-F913-41ED-A24E-DB511592AAE2Thu, 27 Feb 2014 14:06:57 -0500James Franck and the "Franck Report"In 1914 <img src="http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/images/franck_caption.png" alt="James Franck" border="0" align="right"> <a href="http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/franck.html" target="_blank" >James Franck</a> "and Gustav Hertz discovered excitation potential, the laws governing the impact of electrons upon an atom. As a result of their discovery, they shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics. This discovery provided the first experimental evidence of Niels Bohr’s atomic theory that was published six months earlier. During World War II, Franck was head of the Chemical Division of the Manhattan Project in the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago.http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/franck.html
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